Welfare and benefit systems

Demonstrating how the law and statutory guidance applies in practice, this book is a critical account of current family justice policy and practice.

Employing a range of innovative and creative ideas, this book is full of tips to engage children and promote their wellbeing.

After family violence, very young children and babies benefit from child-led therapy, but how do you achieve this?

Bringing together the latest research and theory about a child's inner world and the impact of the world around them, this is a guide to understanding and responding to the emotional needs of traumatised children.

The scale of the Rotherham child protection scandal has led professionals responsible for safeguarding children in other regions to recognise the extent of child abuse in their area and consider how to respond efficiently.

Social protection systems are intended to support households in financial difficulties, a role that has been underlined during the recent Great Recession in many countries around the world.

Britain's welfare state, one of the greatest achievements of our post-war reconstruction, was regarded as the cornerstone of modern society.

In an age of government imposed austerity, and after 30 years of neoliberal restructuring, the future of the welfare state looks increasingly uncertain.

This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be hyper-consumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future.

With contributions from internationally recognized experts, this edited volume presents original thinking on the theory, research and practice surrounding child neglect.

An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change.

The adventures and tribulations of Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children, and humble revolutionary Winner of the 2007 Daily Mail Biographer's Club PrizeAn unconventional biography of an unconventional woman.

In Emotional Healing, world-renowned alternative-health expert Jan de Vries turns his attention to the myriad of mental and emotional conditions that he has seen increase amongst his patients in recent years.

Born a bastard to a teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin, Martha has to be a fighter from the very start.

This book develops a very particular concept of sociality: a holistic way of understanding how human beings have come to care about and collectively provide for their welfare as a species and to recognise each other's needs in terms of shared social rights.

Veterans of the United States armed forces may be eligible for a broad range of benefits and services provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

The aim of this monograph is to examine the impact of a new set of uncertainties on the socio-economic situation of people and societies and to provide research-based innovative approaches and methods for building socio-economic resilience in order to reduce vulnerability and promote the resilience of people and societies to shocks.

This book has been replaced by Social Work Practice with Children, Fourth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3755-6.

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This widely used practitioner resource and course text provides an engaging overview of developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know.

Many child abuse prevention programs have targeted factors within the family, such as parenting skills.

Updated 2015 American Heart Association CPR & ECC guidelines.

This leading resource is a specifically designed curriculum for family child-care providers.

Relationships play an important role in human development, especially in the first years of life.

Does your afterschool program have the WOW factor?

More than 75 empowering and healing classroom activitiesChildren living with uncertainty and insecurity often have difficulty focusing on learning.

Taking a rights-based approach to the interdependence of play and health in childhood, this text argues that the child's right to health and development cannot be satisfied without also the fulfillment of their right to play.

There has been a dramatic increase in the numbers of families and children arriving on the southern border over the past several years.

A majority of states used funding from the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) in fiscal year 2017 to entirely or mostly support 7 of 10 major state child care activities.

Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa, made up of multiple ethnic groups, cultures, and languages.

The Child Welfare System: Perspectives, Challenges and Future Directions opens with a description of the empirical results of a study on bird's nest parenting as a form of shared parenting.

This book contains the Agreements on Social Security between the United States and Iceland, Uruguay and the Republic of Slovenia.

Are you worried about your child's mental health?

Western culture has 'faith' in the labour market as a test of the worth of each individual.

Western culture has 'faith' in the labour market as a test of the worth of each individual.

'Deserves to be an instant classic.

'A conscience-pricking look at the reality of life on Britain's streets .

The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller.

'In my world, the word inspirational gets bandied around a lot, but Jonny Benjamin is truly deserving of that adjective.

'There is always hope, even when we cannot seem to seek it within ourselves.

Family Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people.

The issue of Childhood Sexual Experiences (CSEs) is highly controversial, and has generated considerable disagreement and conflict.

"e;Richard has caught wonderfully in this text the sensitivity and delicacies of therapeutic interaction as well as the complex processes through which young people have to steer in their development towards adulthood.

Collaborative Practice with Vulnerable Children and Their Families focuses on the knowledge and skills needed by professionals who work across disciplines to meet the needs of parents and children experiencing complex difficulties.

Designed as a supplemental text for juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice courses, this workbook fills a void in current textbooks.

The need for services that respond to the ‘maltreatment’ of children and to the struggles of families is at the core of social service systems in all developed nations.

The Missing Child in Liberal Theory opens public discourse on what it is Canadians hold in common through their provision of civic assurances to children and families at risk.

The Missing Child in Liberal Theory opens public discourse on what it is Canadians hold in common through their provision of civic assurances to children and families at risk.

Family therapy is one of the most widely practised psychotherapies in North America.